AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 625 MHz
  • 1678.2x more texture fill rate: 377.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • 2.6x more pipelines: 4096 vs 2x 800
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 55 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 2x 512 MB
  • Around 75% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 948 vs 542
  • 12.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14631 vs 1132
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 June 2017 vs 7 November 2008
Core clock speed 1250 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate 377.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines 4096 vs 2x 800
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 948 vs 542
PassMark - G3D Mark 14631 vs 1132

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 1990 MHz vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)
Memory clock speed 1990 MHz vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
948
542
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
14631
1132
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 13123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 13123
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357
Geekbench - OpenCL 75438
PassMark - G2D Mark 948 542
PassMark - G3D Mark 14631 1132

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 TeraScale
Code name Vega 10 R700
Launch date 23 June 2017 7 November 2008
Place in performance rating 174 246
Launch price (MSRP) $420
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1475 MHz
Compute units 64
Core clock speed 1250 MHz 625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 55 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 755.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 24.17 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 12.08 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4096 2x 800
Pixel fill rate 94.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 377.6 GTexel/s 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 12500 million 956 million
Floating-point performance 2x 1,000.0 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length 267 mm

API support

DirectX 12.1 10.1
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 402.4 GB/s 2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width 2048 bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective) 1990 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR3

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)